Do you make spelling mistakes? Spelling in English CAN be easy. You just have to know the rules. In today’s lesson, I will show you two basic rules about doubling consonants when changing words. You’ll also learn how to say these words correctly. Practice these rules with me on our whiteboard, and then take our quiz to make sure you understand.

Test your understanding of this English lesson

Test your understanding of the English lesson by answering these questions. You will get the answers and your score at the end of the quiz.

What does the Magic E rule tell us about vowel sounds?

if there is an 'E' after a consonant at the end of the word, the vowel has a long soundif there is an 'E' after a consonant at the end of the word, the vowel has a short soundthere is no relationship between vowels and consonants

When adding a suffix to the end of a word that ends with a short vowel sound and a consonant, what do you usually have to do before you add the suffix?

add the suffix directly to the end of the worddouble the consonant before adding the new suffixcapitalize the first letter in the word

My score was perfect!! When I was younger, I had joined “Spelling Bee” contest at an English conversation school.
It brings me back. I loved the contest. It was fun and exciting :) Thank you for your great lesson, James and Mr. E :)

Dear James, you never stop to sorprised me. Many thanks your teaching, coaching and support for sharing skills.it is a motivation and invitation to keep me learning, wiht 0 excuses!!.see you soon. Kind Regards!

Hi James. I really like your teaching demonstration. It is helpful for me and others. It would be much better if you kept things on the board visible. I have hoped that you will continue your great job with something new.

Yesterday I answered the quiz after listen the lesson. But little after I thought this is a very important matter and you know what?! Today I repeated the lesson and the truth is in fact this is a very very important lesson, till today, nobody gave me an explanation like that, when the subject is double the consonant letter. For me since the beginning of the EngVid this was the most important lesson, I ever had. THANK YOU EngVid.

That was awesomesauce!!.. Wow.. I am utterly impressed! I always ask myself how to pronoun or write down any word. Now you made yourself so clearly

Thursday, June 12th 2014

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awesomesauce that’s a new word to me too, but I learn that just now which is more than the awesome meaning word. i think you don’t need this tutorials because you already in the US and you speak the language in your life there, have a good day.

Thank you.
Can you prepare similar lessons about a punctuation? Frequently, I have doubts about double letters (SS, LL, FF) in many English words. I just have a tendency to forgetting if words have e.g. double s or not. I hope that you know a solution of this problem.
Sometimes, that are differences between British, and American versions of English (double or single l in words), but it is not always easy to remember all the rules.

good work , i got 10,, but i’v another rule about the ‘ing’ form says when the verbe ends by voyal+ consonant we double the the consonant then we add ing ,and when the verb ends by “e” we must omit only this “e” and we add the ing ..is it true in any case??

Hi! I would be interested in a lesson about the school system, for example the differences between college and high-school or university because I’ve looked it up in many dictionaries and they give different meanings. Thanks.

thank you so much,
before going to work. i allways learn a lesson on this website. that helped me a lot in my life and my work.
P/S: i have just learnt english, so my sentence maybe wrong. hopping you guys will correct it for me.
thank you.

Hey, James, hi. I’d like to say that I’m making(not makking👌) headway on my English. Thank you for your sense of humor because you are very funny while recording videos and I’d like journey to record more videos on grammar. Well done

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